splitting apart 23.2.6 changing to 7 when asking about my financial situation based on calculations

[yinwithjim]

I have posted previously that I am considering going back to graduate school. Since then I have chosen a prospective school and took a look at my finances with regards to the tuition etc for 3 years and in general what my finances will look like during and after I finish. I asked - "advise me on my calculations about going to xyz college" - and received 23.2.6 changing to 7.

Up until this point the I Ching has been relatively favorable to this idea of me going back to school. Now, with with this reading, I am a bit worried...and hoping I'm reading and interpreting incorrectly (which is always possible).

The majority of authors use "splitting apart" or similar words from Hex 23 with explanation of "it is not beneficial or advantageous to move forward" - line 2 changing with the splitting of the bed outright confuses me - and I am curious and unsure of line 6 changing and it's implication of "uneatened fruit"

Hex 7 - with one interpretation of discipline and firm correctness - leading to good fortune.

Thus, I am worried/forced to believe that my basic calculations of school costs and how it will affect my overall finances - have I made a huge error? Have I missed something? and/or at this time my calculations are actually showing that moving ahead with going to school is a bad idea?

The result hexagram of 7 - I want to interpret as stated above "with discipline" I will have good fortune - but I know that this is most likely reading / interpreting to have a result that I like?

Does anyone have any other ideas about what's going on here?

I'd really appreciate it.

 

[IrfanK]

The majority of authors use "splitting apart" or similar words from Hex 23 with explanation of "it is not beneficial or advantageous to move forward" - line 2 changing with the splitting of the bed outright confuses me - and I am curious and unsure of line 6 changing and it's implication of "uneatened fruit"

Hmm. I always thought 23 was more about painful or difficult transformations, leading to new situations, new growth. That general idea could apply to your question.

 

[dfreed]

with regards to the tuition etc for 3 years and in general what my finances will look like during and after I finish.

I am curious, besides what the Yijing may say about your finances, what did you conclude when you looked at them? What do your own calculations tell you?

Thanks.

 

[dfreed]

advise me on my calculations about going to xyz college" - and received 23.2.6 changing to 7.

Hex. 23 reads, 'Now is not a good time to go on a journey'. This suggests caution to me, at the very least. It does not, however, say that all options are bad. Ex. staying closer to home might be a good option.

Line 23.2 seems to build on this 'not a good time' idea - perhaps 'cutting into' your dreams and sense of ease (the bed) and having more difficulty moving forward in your life (cut up knees).

23.6 seems to be offering you options: one direction (which may have different choices within it) is to 'no go on a journey' and to look for opportunities close-by instead - as you might fill up your newly-gifted wagon with the fruit on nearby trees that others have not yet picked. It may take some effort on you part (and a ladder) to reach this unpicked fruit, but the opportunities are here.

Another option - burning down your own home (maybe -'burning through your finances'?) - doesn't seem all that good.

The movement of the upper trigram (three-line figure) is from Mountain in Hex. 23 to Earth in 7. It suggest (advices) that you include being pactical and down-to-earth as part of your calculations, and as a way to get unstuck: there are gains to be had, but this will take some effort on your part (along with the right tools - a wagon, a ladder etc.) - and you may want to look for these closer to home.

Hex. 7 builds on this: here you have groundwater (Hex. 7's lower trigram), a source of nourishment - and you just need to make some practical, directed effort(s) to get to it.

I hope this is useful for you.

 

[Liselle]

Does anyone have any other ideas about what's going on here?

Maybe.

I kind of hear Yi changing the subject and giving you an indirect answer. As Dfreed alluded to, if you've done calculations to the best of your ability, and if they tell you this is manageable (?), and Yi has been "relatively favorable" so far, maybe at this point you're just piling confusion on.

I usually find line 2 hard to get to grips with. It might help to mentally rephrase it in more normal English: you're stripping away the bed frame. What is the bed frame? The thing that holds up the place where you can rest. What is "rest" in this situation? Maybe being able to rest comfortably with your decision. You've done calculations / due diligence, Yi's given you some encouragement, and yet you're not finding that restful. (ETA: which is completely understandable. It's a huge decision.)

Then Yi says, "To disregard constancy: pitfall." Constancy to what? Maybe to all the work you've already done on this decision. Maybe that's your resting place.

 

[Liselle]

Am guessing you're going back to school in order to change jobs/careers - is that right? How sure are you that new career will be better than old career, financially? If it will be, great. If it won't be, but you still want it for other reasons, have you looked at the finances in the longer term? Maybe it's not just "can I afford to spend 3 years going to school," but how you'll accommodate it for years to come, for instance if you'll have grad school loans to repay or whatever.

 

[rosada]

Perhaps the I Ching is giving you a description of your calculations. Is your plan somehow to cut back expenses to the bare bones (23. Splitting Apart)? Are you thinking of moving to a communal living situation (7. The Army)? The Army might also refer to the college, so selling everything and going off to school?

23.2 may be cautioning that you may not be able to project your plan three years into the future, that the facts you are dealing with now may not be reliable. However 23.6 seems to encourage you to continue with your venture.

 

[Liselle]

Are you thinking of moving to a communal living situation (7. The Army)?

Do you get that from 7 being about a militia, the idea of army barracks or some such?

 

[rosada]

Yeah, like army barracks = student dorm rooms.

 

[rosada]

As his question was about his finances during and after college thus perhaps he is being advised to consider what degree would serve him best when he must ultimately Split Apart from school and join The Army, aka The Work Force.